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This website is a resource page for Understanding by Design, by Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe. Backward design aligns desired outcomes, assessments and planning to lead to student understanding.

Universal Design for Learning is a set of principles for curriculum development that give all individuals equal opportunities to learn. Learn more about UDL

This site is a collection and review of multiple music technology resources. There are also curriculum, rubric and assessments designs to help music educator develop instructional design.

This informative website is designed to get young students interested in the arts, namely music, theater, and dance. Designed by Canada's National Arts Centre, the music section offers a wealth of information on composers, instruments, the orchestra, and other musical topics, with games and activities to deepen understanding. It also has separate pages for teachers, students, parents, and artists that have different resources.

The Music and Sound Design Platform is a new approach to making electronic and electro-acoustic music. Music_SDP uses many of the same tools and processes that are found in your favorite music software, but introduces a new paradigm for exploring sounds, performing songs, and writing electro-acoustic compositions.

Blog post on ways to improve the design of a classroom to better serve students.

A Great marching band game that teaches students the fundamentals of drill design. There are some setbacks as there is not music with it, but it's a fun application for students to experiment with and design shows.

Project Based Learning is an excellent strategy for increasing motivation and excitement through instruction. This article details the steps for designing a PBL unit.

This is a website to use with elementary students for teaching about the components of an opera. Hansel and Gretel is sung in English and students are able to interact and make decisions about the production.

inter-active opera - 3d characters also - Scheherazade and Brahms in 1890's adventures

This is an online interactive game for EVERYONE! Students are presented the chance to design their own opera, embark with interactive chamber music, access music resources, and even engage the entire family with a family listening activity.

Online interactive experience of Humperdinck's Opera Hansel and Gretel. Players can control interactive elements in every scene and watch the play unfold. Explore elements of orchestral and opera music through guided listening including set design, programming and costumes. Lesson plan, text and libretto for teaacher download. Interdisciplinary activities for the classroom available. Flash version 8 required.

Online interactive experience of Humperdinck's Opera Hansel and Gretel. Players can control interactive elements in every scene and watch the play unfold. Explore elements of orchestral and opera music through guided listening including set design, programming and costumes. Lesson plan, text and libretto for teaacher download. Interdisciplinary activities for the classroom available. Flash version 8 required.

Online interactive experience of Humperdinck's Opera Hansel and Gretel. Players can control interactive elements in every scene and watch the play unfold. Explore elements of orchestral and opera music through guided listening including set design, programming and costumes. Lesson plan, text and libretto for teacher download. Interdisciplinary activities for the classroom available. Flash version 8 required.

Online interactive experience of Humperdinck's Opera Hansel and Gretel. Players can control interactive elements in every scene and watch the play unfold. Explore elements of orchestral and opera music through guided listening including set design, programming and costumes. Lesson plan, text and libretto for teacher download. Interdisciplinary activities for the classroom available. Flash version 8 required.

Great for ages K-5. Equipped with worksheets, lesson plans, assessments. etc. The website is easily navigated and up-to-date.

This website provides free resources for music teachers including lesson plans, activities, assessments, and video examples designed to be effective and adaptable in a wide variety of music classrooms. The resources include fundamentals of rhythm and meter, form and design, expressive qualities, pitch, and performing.

This set of free online resources for music teachers includes lesson plans and activities, summative and formative assessments, video examples, and documented best practices.

This site is stocked full of useful features for students in the form of games, quizzes, and a great flash keyboard with music to match. Using the number keys, students can practice even if they don't have a piano keyboard. There are also lessons and resources for teachers, too.

This website is suitable for teachers who give students free time to work on music games. Many different music topics are taught by the music teachers and a better way for students to retain the information would include turning some of their assignments into competition. One thing i have learned, elementary students love to be competitive, so if the students are able to get high scores on music games, then they are retaining and getting the information.

The creator of this site, Karen Garrett, has compiled different games and quizzes to make her music class more interactive. Students can access games about different instruments, note naming, rhythm, and even composers. There are also theory quizzes and worksheets that anyone can access.

This platform is perfect for musician websites. I've been using this for years, to design sites for music artists. You can sell your tracks and keep 100% of the profits, and their features are sleek and easy to set up. Also, Bandzoogle has excellent customer support.

MusicFirst suggests this LMS comprehensive aural theory software designed for grades K-12 and beyond. Since it was created in 1990, it has been monitor and enhanced to provide a tool for educators and students. It is cloud-based, supported by educators with decades of knowledge and skill in integrating technology into the music classroom. Auralia promotes student ownership of learning through the appropriately paced lessons and exams which provide immediate formative feedback.

This site helps build rubrics used for assessments.  You can design your own rubrics for playing tests, performances and projects.

This is a website that links to various rubric-creating formats, designed to save educators time and effort in making more visually-appealing assessment tools. There is a brief article that discusses the benefits of implementing a rubric in assessment, and there are multiple links to other articles that discuss the pros and cons of utilizing rubrics at various levels of education. Within the initial article are 25 different formats, some more topic-specific than others, to generate rubrics with pictures and descriptions. It is easy to use and much more efficient than creating a rubric from scratch.

This site allows you to meta-search images for course design pages. In putting together Canvas or Google Classroom pages having resources for non-proprietary digital images is a huge help.

Marching band is something that a lot of people have to do, but not everyone has great experience as a marching director. This site provides a free podcast put together by some of the prolific minds in the marching band and drum corps world to help give ideas and provide strategies for improving public school programs.

This website is a great resource for those involved in the marching arts. There are many informative podcasts that go over everything from marching show design to judging criteria. This is a huge tool for high school band directors and marching band staff members

Music first is a great resource for any K-12. The website offer teaching features using some of the best teaching technology for music.

MusicFirst is an online classroom that offers users premium access to many popular web-based music software titles with one paid subscription. It acts as a "hub" for students and teachers to easily discover and use a variety of tools and programs. The website also provides useful resources for building a technology-based curriculum. The features of this online classroom are designed for learning, creating, and sharing music.

An excellent `learning management system designed for music educators. I would love to use this in place of Google Classroom.

This is designed to give music educators an online tool for easy access to forums, discussion boards, advice, teaching strategies, teaching stories, advocacy tips, pertinent articles, rehearsal advice, and anything else that has to do with the field of Music Education.

This is designed to give music educators an online tool for easy access to forums, discussion boards, advice, teaching strategies, teaching stories, advocacy tips, pertinent articles, rehearsal advice, and anything else that has to do with the field of Music Education.

Quick and easy access to a variety of educational resources.